Signals Through the Noise: From Markets to Music

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[00:00:48] Welcome to the Crypto Hipster Podcast. Today, I'm joined by Simon Mock from MyCryptoParadise. Most people who come through this show have built companies, have built protocols or products or communities. Simon took a different path, right? Instead of creating those things, instead of creating noise, you actually created something. You created an album. Simon Mock, That's right. Yeah.

[00:01:18] Simon Mock, So that immediately got my attention because we're living through a period now where technology, finance, media, culture, they're all increasingly blending together. So today, we're not going to talk about price predictions or market calls or any of that stuff or any noise. We're going to talk about creativity, discipline, psychology, and what happens when an industry starts producing its own art.

[00:01:43] So let's start off. Before MyCryptoParadise, who were you? Well, before MyCryptoParadise, actually, I have been involved in trading as well, but not crypto. Since I've been a little child, I've been very interested into markets, into graphs. I've been all about understanding psychology, how the money are flowing around the markets.

[00:02:10] Well, and then I've, because of my friends, to be honest, at school, I've started when I was at high school. Basically, my friend told me and it was like in 2014, 2013, something like that. And he told me about Bitcoin. And that was something that absolutely changed the kind of my vision of what I wanted to be.

[00:02:32] I wanted to be a pilot, to be honest. But then I have basically started to educate myself about blockchain, about the technology. And since I have been involved in trading before, obviously, I've very naturally went into trying to predict what the Bitcoin is going to do next. And so I've been learning technical analysis, etc. Well, let's let's pass forward a few years.

[00:02:58] Then I have understood that like technical analysis, fundamental analysis, it's very easy to learn. But if the trader wants to be long term profitable, it's here. It's about the mindset. It's about the psychology. So I have started to involved into into my trading this this kind of stuff because I understood that mindset and having the right psychology is essential if you want to be long term profitable trader.

[00:03:27] Right. So I'm saying I'm not seeing a connection and I'm interested in the connection. You go from pilot to trader to creating an album. What made you become what made you become a creator, an artist? How did you how does that work into your story here? Yeah, well, so I'm I've been building my crypto paradise for since 2016, basically. Right. So that's that's the team of traders we have been involved in in crypto trading.

[00:03:56] And since since 2016, our mission, because you know that right, you are in the market in very for a very long time, you know that crypto is all about greed, about emotions. A lot of people are here just to like get rich quick. Right. I would say everybody wants to get rich quick. So everybody's looking forward to the next the next Pepe coin or the next Shiba Inu coin or the next Doge coin.

[00:04:25] And what their vision is that they will put like $1,000 in the coin and then it will make them rich. Right. They will they they will start withdrawing thousands like thousand X on that on that coin, which I know it can happen. But you need to be extremely lucky and most of the times you need to be insider. Right. So in order for you to be long term profitable in trading crypto, you actually need to have some kind of strategy.

[00:04:55] You need to have some kind of discipline. And that's what that's what basically made me to create the album, because since 2016, our our mission is to make the crypto space more professional focused space, less emotional and more focused on risk. And that's so basically like today is 2026 in the album. There is my knowledge since 2016. Right.

[00:05:21] So every single piece of music, every single song in that album is something that I wanted to repeat myself in my head. So basically, it's like it's like mantras, you know, mantras. Right. So basically, if you speak to your head some mantras, you you start act like it.

[00:05:44] You start act based on it. And I'm talking about building your discipline, building your good habits. So actually, we have made the album in my crypto paradise for our own traders, for them to be able to stay with the good habits. All right. So every piece of music in that album is focused on making sure that you actually will be trading with the good habits.

[00:06:12] So you have behind yourself or in some videos signal over noise. Right. That's also one of our songs signal over noise. How would you explain signal over noise? Like the I'm really interested because I do believe that you have some kind of explanation for that. And a lot of things that are like good for business, profitable business building are also very good for profitable long term trading.

[00:06:40] So I would really love to hear your explanation of signal over noise. Bitcoin is driven by a lot of market narratives, right? It's like somebody comes out and says, hey, the price of Bitcoin is going to a million dollars. And then all the media companies cover that. But what don't they cover? They don't cover the use of energy. They don't cover the use of building Bitcoin as a network. They don't cover peer to peer payment.

[00:07:06] They don't cover the drama in the market. Right. They don't cover the underlying stuff in your songs. You do. Right. So my definition is the extra stuff that gains attention that has nothing to do with the functionality and operations of the network. You know, to me, that's what it is, you know. But, you know, I'm interested in also your how you see it.

[00:07:34] And then all like, why do you, how do you, before I get to the next question, how do you, how do you see it? How do I see it signal over noise? Yeah. All right. In crypto perspective or in perspective, like building a business or in trading perspective? Both. Both. Or all three. All three. All right. All right. Well, I do believe that there is a lot of similarities. Okay. So there is a lot of noise. As you have said, you have said it beautifully. Right.

[00:08:03] So a lot of people are trying to put attention from the core fan. Right. Which is the technology of Bitcoin, for example. So for me, Bitcoin was always about basically not having the third party that is watching over our transactions. Right. So if, if, if I want to send you a money, we don't need to have a third party that is watching over. Right.

[00:08:29] We need to have this kind of like human to human trust. So you, like, I sent you money, you trust me that I will send you money and you give me some service, service, like for it, like, and vice versa. Right. So we don't need to have some bank for, or for example, like what I feel about Bitcoin, why, why I love Bitcoin so much. If I want to send money to Africa, for example. Right.

[00:08:56] And if I would do it with the, with the regular system through some banks, like it would take multiple days. Right. But if I sent over Bitcoin, it's instant. So I really love this about Bitcoin, the kind of freedom of moving the money. Right. And money is basically energy, right. So the energy should be flowing freely. There shouldn't be something for some bad bottleneck.

[00:09:23] And I do believe that the third parties, the banks, they are the bottlenecks of that energy. They are slowing the energy. Right. And I do believe economically, it's so important that the money can be flowing freely as free as possible. So the technology is amazing. And if we go to back to the, to the signal over noise in trading, for example.

[00:09:44] So that's a lot about volatility, for example. So when you, when you have, when you have, when you have, when you have some trading strategy, all right. Traders need to be able to recognize that they need to focus only on their trading strategy, but it's so hard in these times, given that you have the social media, right.

[00:10:09] You have the crypto Twitter influencers that are, that are always chilling some coins. You have the mass media telling you Bitcoin is going up, Bitcoin, Bitcoin is going down right now, like Bitcoin is dead, etc. You know, all of this is noise. And all of this is something what's still in your focus. All right. From the strategy that you should be as a professional trader focusing on. Right.

[00:10:37] So it's not, it's not that hard to develop a strategy with an edge. All right. That you backtest over three years and you understand that you can survive during the smaller market cycles. But the hardest thing is stay with the strategy and follow it with discipline over and over again. So the edge that you are following can actually transform into profit. Right.

[00:11:02] But when there is like a lot of crypto Twitter influencers, social media, mass media, and everybody pushing into your head something, it's a lot of noise. Right. It's a lot of noise. So then you have some trading strategy and the trading strategy telling you now you should buy. Here's your stop loss. Here you should place target. But a lot of people have problem with it because of the noise. Yeah.

[00:11:24] So it breaks your focus and it starts to doubt yourself. But look, this guy, Crypto Moon, Carl or whatever, he's telling me the Bitcoin is going to the moon. But my strategy is telling me it's going down. So my strategy is telling me I should be short, but I'm not sure right now because of this guy. So that's the noise. That's the noise. And that's just one song. We have 12 songs there. It's first album.

[00:11:48] That's one song about all of this. And since we have like pushed live the album, I've been getting a lot of great messages that's that it helped a lot of people to really like stay with their system, stay with their focus, not to not to be distracted by the noise. Got it. Got it. Yeah, it makes sense to me a lot. Something that like you talk about the strategy, you talk about the influencers.

[00:12:17] I cut off my X account back in January. The first thing I did for the new year was turn that off. Right. And then the second thing I did is I just published this book behind me and my wall. People are people. People. It's about the human side of systems and not the strategy. It's not the shilling side of systems. It's about the our role in within the ever changing systems.

[00:12:40] Now, in order to do that, I had to stop buying crypto for two months altogether. Even even looking at it, I wasn't able to keep them separate. OK, I mean, I made them separate. I was able to like conflict, like I couldn't conflict it. But you are you are you are making sounds about Bitcoin while keeping a strategy. How do you do both at the same time and be able to keep on track?

[00:13:10] How do I keep a track of doing Bitcoin and working with some strategy? How do you how do you how do you not mix the creative side with the strategy side, keep them separate and still be able to be successful in both? All right. When you say creative side, what do you mean by that? The music. The music. Well, the music that was just like one time thin, right? One time thin to because we were like,

[00:13:39] we really wanted to have something inside of the company that can help our company traders to focus on their strategy. So that was one time thin and it came up from the kind of struggle that I have been getting out of watching other people keep being emotional. All right. Not inside of the company, but outside outside on Twitter exactly and other social media.

[00:14:05] So look, clients that are coming to us all the time. Right. And some some of the we also have like a free free free section basically with members. They can contact us and always I'm seeing the patterns. I'm seeing the patterns like a lot of people. They have the strategy. They have some system built, but they say, but Simon, I'm still losing. I'm still losing. And then we go through it. I go with them through it. We have a call.

[00:14:33] I go through it and I understand it's always it's always because of the psychology, the mindset. Right. So I have made it like out of this kind of struggle of watching those people because I wanted to help them. And I know music is powerful. All right. And when we and we've been speaking about noise, there's a lot of noise.

[00:14:56] All right. There is a lot of noise in the music industry as well. Right. Like a lot of people, they are listening to music that gives them nothing. Just a little bit great feeling, but it's again short term. All right. And it's in the it's again in the business. It's in the trading as well. This kind of short term versus long term trade off. Yeah. So something feels good in the moment for short term, for example, junkie food. Right. That's really good in the short run.

[00:15:25] But in the long term, it's not beneficial. Right. The same thing music like you can listen to music. What's most popular right now? Hip hop. Right. Hip hop. I like hip hop. I love hip hop. But I'm more like this kind of old school hip hop. The new school that's more like I don't know if I can say some some bad words here in this podcast, but it's all about bitches, drugs and sex and these kind of stuff. Right. So it feels good to listen to it.

[00:15:54] It feels good to listen to it. But it actually it's just a noise. It's like this kind of chewing gum to your ears. And I wanted to produce a steak. All right. A steak that is going to nurture your body. And it will actually it will actually give you something beneficial for the long term. And it actually feels good in the short run as well, because we have been basically combining this kind of styles of hip hop and jazz in it.

[00:16:21] So we have tried to make it listenable. So it's fun to listen as well. What hip hop artists inspired you the most? I love I love 50 Cent, Eminem, Tupac, Biggie. I love all of them. I really like all of them. Yeah.

[00:16:42] And what I most like about them that they are real, you know, they have been they've been they are basically rapping about really what happened in their life. Right. So there are storytellers. They are something like Shakespeare basically. They are they are poetess. They are they are doing a great piece of music that actually have something behind it. But the new school, it's this kind of mumble rappers. I don't like it feels good, but it's about nothing.

[00:17:12] Right. It's just really chewing gum to your ears. I don't appreciate that. No. Every every chapter of my new book is after a 1980s or early 90s classic rock cassette era song. So that's why I ask about inspiration. But I want to find out also from you, like, you know, a lot of people write books or they build courses or they host podcasts.

[00:17:39] Right. What can music communicate, especially about trading? What can music communicate other media? Well, we can we can I can because, for example, I can tell you do this and this and you will be profitable, but it's it's boring and you will not listen.

[00:18:03] But if I put it in a music, it's going to be catchy. It's going to stay in your mind and you're going to repeat it to yourself. So I can actually say in the music, music something that will actually stick with you. Thanks to the music, because I can say the same thing boring way and you're going to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Simon, of course, I know that I need to do this right. But if I put it in the music somehow clever way, it's actually going to stick with you.

[00:18:29] If I if I have done a great job, it's going to be memorable. So you're going to repeat it to yourself. And there's much higher probability that you will actually, thanks to the music, do the stuff that music is telling you to do. Right. So so the music is amazing thing because it's working with vibrations and stuff.

[00:18:52] And if you're doing a great, great job, you can make it memorable and you can make it the way that it sticks with the person. So we can send a message much better in the music than with spoken word. Before my dad passed away in 2017, he used to say to me, son, build a company that is you. So what I see here is you building this album in this company that is you.

[00:19:19] So what was the moment that you realized this wasn't just a marketing ploy or project that it was actually a company that's you? Well, the moment because I've been basically building the company for myself. Right. So in the beginning, when I wanted to get into crypto and start, well, when I've got into crypto and I wanted to trade the crypto, I have been looking forward to somebody to teach me about trading crypto. Right.

[00:19:48] But there was nobody around. There was just these kind of shillers of meme coins. And since I have been before trading Forex and also on the stock market, I wanted somebody that explains to me the kind of like the connections between those stuff. So connections between Bitcoin dominance, how it's connecting to altcoins. Basically, you can also watch how the money are flowing from other markets into crypto, etc.

[00:20:17] And I was looking forward to somebody to teach me about these kind of stuff. But everybody's just told me about buy this coin. This is the this is this is going to moon, etc. Right. So I found nobody. So I needed to do it myself. So I've started to read more books about trading and then I started to apply the kind of tactics that I have been using in crypto into crypto. I mean, in Forex into crypto trading. Yeah.

[00:20:44] So I've and then I've been looking around and my friends told me, look, teach me, teach me about how you do this kind of stuff. So I started to build the my crypto paradise and I have been I've been building it basically because nobody was doing the stuff we have been doing. I've been doing that. I've been hiring more traders to the team. And thanks to that, we have been able to help a lot of people to be profitable in trading.

[00:21:13] Got it. I looked at your song list. Some of them stick out to me. OK, like and they go against against all the social media influencers. You you say FOMO is expensive instead of FOMO is easy. You say, yeah, trust, trust the plan instead of trust me. You say, you know, get get rich slow. I say that no one else says that you say that execute like a pro trust the process.

[00:21:39] Right. So with all those lessons, why do people keep repeating the same mistakes and doing the opposite of what you what's in your songs? Because it feels good. It feels good. It's like when you when you when you tell a child like this, don't touch the candle.

[00:22:01] It's going to burn you. Right. You can you can tell it multiple times and the child still needs to try like himself or herself to touch the fire to really feel it's going to burn. Right. So like and one try is not enough. Right. Some people need to burn themselves like five times, six times before they understand. OK, I'm not going to be touching the scandal. Right. So so like that's the one thing, right?

[00:22:28] Like you can tell a lot of people, look, you cannot trade like this. You cannot you cannot you cannot trade like this. You can be lucky in the short run, but in the long run you will lose money because you're you're going against the probabilities. You can tell people, but they will be like, yeah, yeah. And they will say that they will say, OK, I trust you. I understand you. I mean, I understand you. But still, they need to burn themselves to to to to get that feeling.

[00:22:55] So that's one thing. Right. And the other thing is that it feels good. It really feels good. Like it doesn't feel good to trade boringly. Right. When you when you trade the boring way, it's in the short run, it's very uncomfortable. So you need to go against the kind of human behavior which which we have like in ourselves. Usually you need to do the uncomfortable stuff, right? Going against the crowds, etc.

[00:23:24] So it doesn't feel good and it's boring and it's slow. What feels good is smashing the slot machine. Right. That's very fun. That's very fun because because when you when you when you when you smash the slot machine, sometimes you win nothing, but sometimes you win a lot. Right. And then it really goes into your brain. The kind of good chemicals start to reproduce in your brain.

[00:23:49] You start to get the dopamine, the endorphins. I don't know these kind of great chemicals that makes you addicted. Right. So it's actually addictive to doing it the wrong way because there is this kind of time of uncertainty. So you smash the slot machine. Right. And you don't know what's going to happen. So it's uncertainty. And then there is the trigger. Right. You either lose or win.

[00:24:14] And when you win, you didn't expect. Well, you expected it, but it's the I don't I don't know how to explain it. But basically this kind of uncertainty and then some outcome big outcome is creating a huge emotional effect in your in your body and in your mind. And that's what makes you addicted to it. Yeah. So it's addictive. That's why people do it.

[00:24:39] Yeah. I haven't touched a slot machine since 1995. I was at the casino in Atlantic City and I dropped 100 bucks and I went to the ATM to get more and came back to that machine. A little old lady was at that machine and she hit the smash and she hit the jackpot. And if I had like 10 more dollars in my pocket, I wouldn't have hit the jackpot. Like I'm not playing this anymore. And the casino just created a long term customer. Right. Like she's she's not going to stop now. Like she hit the jackpot.

[00:25:07] Like there is nothing better. There is no better feeling than hitting a jackpot. Like the casino just created a long term customer. So you can bet I I bet she she she came back to the casino and she's coming back for that exact feeling because it feels so damn good to basically from $100 make $10,000.

[00:25:29] There is nothing like it. It feels so good. Right. But the thing is, the thing is, the thing is that the next time she wins from $100, $10,000, she will not have the kind of same emotional reaction. That's the that's the bad thing. All right. That's the that's the dangerous thing, I would say.

[00:25:50] So in order for her to get the same endorphin rush, she needs to win from $100, $20,000. All right. Next time. It's like it's like these kind of junkies. All right. When you when you basically get a shot of I don't know crack or something that they always say right, the first shot is the best shot. They always said that and there is there is then nothing similar like the second shot is not that good. The third shot is not that good.

[00:26:19] So how do OD happens, how do over how is it called that they basically overshoot themselves, how it happens because they need to increase the dosage in order for them to get a similar feeling of the first shot they have got. And that's how they overdose themselves. Right. Because they basically get too much because they are trying to seek the first feeling they have got during the first shot.

[00:26:45] But the next shot is never as good as the first one. And the same thing with the gamblers, right. It's never as good as the first one. So they need to go to the casino more often, bet more money with more other because they seek the feeling it's addictive, right. They have got hooked. The casino hooked them because of these kind of emotional principles that basically you smash the button. And then there is the moment of uncertainty, then there is the outcome. And it's just a great feeling.

[00:27:16] Yeah. So what I get at is that you started off by saying that your songs were about trading. I don't think they're about trading. Well, they could be a little bit about trading. I think they're really songs not about crypto, but they're songs about human behavior. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Psychology, human behavior, making sure that the right mindset of a professional trader is really going to be injected in your brain like that.

[00:27:40] Got it. Got it. So one of the things that you're teaching is you're teaching discipline instead of addiction, you're teaching discipline. So do you believe that discipline, you know, where does discipline come from? Is it learned or is it inherited? Where does it, where does that ability come from? No, discipline needs to be learned. All right. Like discipline, discipline is definitely need to be learned. I have not been disciplined, right. I have not been disciplined.

[00:28:07] So it's, it's about starting small, for example, starting to wake up at the same time and building from that. Right. A lot of people try to be disciplined in everything at once. That's very hard. All right. So you need to small, you need to start small, basically. So discipline is built, in my opinion. So you really need to work hard on achieving that. So it's about the process. Learning discipline.

[00:28:36] Got it. So what role do you think failure has played in your life? Failure? Well, I had a bad relationship with failure at first. All right. So I thought when I've been failing at something, I have, I've not been nice to myself afterwards. I've said like, oh, you're not good at this, etc.

[00:29:01] And then I have started to build a better relationship with failure. And I have actually understood that the failure, there is nothing like failing. There is always only lessons. Right. So then I have understood that every failure, then, then I went to such an extreme that I've started to understood that the failure is actually a gift to me to tell me something.

[00:29:27] So I can get better thanks to it. Right. So failure for me is a lesson now, lesson that I can learn from. And it's this kind of beautiful feedback. It's a gift. Lessons. I've learned a lot of lessons in crypto. Especially when I was an SSC customer. I, you know, I had money in an old wallet that ended up being owned and I didn't realize this that was owned by like the Swiss Russian mafia.

[00:29:54] Yeah, I lost money there. You know, so what if I know, you know, like what markets have taught you about yourself? Markets? Well, yeah, market is a very expensive place to really try to understand yourself. So market is going to exploit exploit all of your bad behaviors, all of your negative, this kind of behaviors and actions that you are making.

[00:30:23] So market is really going to show you who you are, because market is going to put you in a lot of pressure. Right. And it's always like I do believe that the real personality of a person is always revealed when you put that person into some crisis situation or into some high pressure situation. Right.

[00:30:48] So, for example, what it taught me about is that I'm easily distracted. Yeah, I was easily. Now it's better, but I have been easily distracted and I have been a little bit too. And also that I'm a little bit hyperactive. Yeah. So that's what that's what market showed me. So I have been doing sometimes like in the past too fast decisions. Yeah.

[00:31:15] Too fast decisions or that cost me some money. And I've needed to learn that. All right. This is this is exactly the behavior that is losing me money. I needed to work on that behavior. And then I needed to start in my personal life to really like focus on getting rid of the bad behavior. And then it actually helped me to be more profitable in the markets as well.

[00:31:41] So I really do believe that like these kind of good good traits like discipline, patience, etc. That's that's all of the things that are important for you to first develop in your personal life. So then you can apply them in trading. Got it. To say I'm a trader and I want to use your platform. If I listen to your album and I say, you know what?

[00:32:11] I want to I want to learn. I want to pick out the one song that tells me the most about Simon. Which which song is that and why is that important for you? And what lesson do you want the listener of that song to listen to for to understand who you are? Yeah, my favorite. My favorite song is definitely like a sniper. And it's actually like you can learn a lot about me because I have not been a sniper before.

[00:32:39] All right, I have been more like a machine gun soldier with machine gun. Yeah, so the song like a sniper is all about being patient and about waiting for your perfect shot just for the high probability shot. So a lot of people and me as well. I have been doing the thing that I've been chasing the rabbit. Basically, I've been chasing the rabbit.

[00:33:07] So I wanted the rabbit and I have been chasing the rabbit. Right? So I've been so I thought that the faster I'm going to run, the bigger probability that I will get the rabbit. Right? But I didn't understood in the beginning that the faster I'm going to go after the rabbit, the faster the rabbit is going to run from me.

[00:33:25] Right? So then then what's what's much better is to be like a sniper and develop this kind of love and attraction in your life and wait for the rabbit to come to you. So how do you gonna do it? You're gonna do it by setting a trap, right? You're gonna you need to you need to set up the trap. And you need to wait for the rabbit to come to you. And then you wait just for the perfect shot, which is the highest high probability trait. And then you shot, right? Then you shoot.

[00:33:55] And sometimes you can you also can miss, right? But it's much less likely than that you will actually hit the rabbit if you will just wait for the rabbit for the perfect shot. And then you shoot, right? So like a sniper, that's that's the song I would listen first. That makes a lot of sense because people like to buy people like to buy Bitcoin when it's 100,000 and not when it's 50. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

[00:34:23] And that's also about the crowd psychology, right? So everybody it's again the noise. Basically, everybody telling you Bitcoin is going much higher, much higher. That's what happened in one or twenty one thousand dollars, right? So everybody was calling Bitcoin is going much higher, much higher. And if you have been watching my YouTube videos, we have been calling for the Bitcoin actually is about to start crashing from there.

[00:34:48] Right. So it's about trying to understand that really there are also two entities in the market, the smart money and then the retail. Right. And when you are when you are some big entity, right, you are handling a lot of money. And in order for you to be able to distribute your Bitcoins, you need somebody else to buy the Bitcoin from you. Right. So you actually need to cooperate with these crypto Twitter influencers.

[00:35:16] You actually need to cooperate with this mass media because you need the liquidity to get rid of your liquidity. Right. So you need to basically dump your bags without moving the market. How that's going to happen? You need to push a lot of positive news. Everybody will be buying and you will be you can slowly basically sell to them. Right. Without moving the market that much. And then basically when people start understanding, oh my God, it's nowhere moving.

[00:35:42] Everybody starts dumping the Bitcoin is going down and then you can do the same thing at the bottom. Right. Then you start pushing again like the kind of noise. Again, we are at the noise that Bitcoin is going much lower. Bitcoin is dead. Bitcoin actually doesn't do anything, etc. And everybody is like, yeah, yeah, actually Bitcoin is actually not that good. Right. So everybody will start selling money, selling their Bitcoin.

[00:36:10] They believe that it's going to go lower. And that's the time for you again just to re-accumulate without moving the market. Right. Because you have people to sell that are selling their your liquidity. You can accumulate that liquidity and then it's cycles. It's happening since since 2012. Right. 20, 20, 2014. It started all of this like manipulation.

[00:36:36] Yeah. So you're you're so you and I both think that people, the regular retail person should be able to distinguish the signals. From the noise and they can do that by listening to your album and the immediate takeaways from by listening to your album are what? Say it again.

[00:37:02] What are the immediate takeaways that they can take so they can start to separate the signals from the noise? Well, the immediate actions that they can take to immediately start. They need to they need to basically develop their they need to close the noise. All right. And they need to start to start basically getting educated. All right. And it can be with my videos. It can be on with other videos, basically watching some technical analysis.

[00:37:30] So they understand how to build a profitable trading system, build their profitable trading system that they backtest and then basically follow just their own signals. Right. Then their own system. And it can be it can be like based on Elliot wave. It can be based on Wyckoff. It can be any system that you know, once you can learn it, that will give you edge if you follow it. Right.

[00:37:58] Well, and then you just need to stick with your system during the good times and during the bad times as well. And that's the thing. All right. A lot of people can are looking just forward to some like indicator that will always tell them when to buy, when to sell. And it's always make them profit. Right. So but it like none of the profitable trading strategies work this way. There's always a period where you make money and then when you lose money.

[00:38:24] The key thing is that you make more when you win in and you lose less when you lose it. And you need to stick with the system or you need to stick with the system basically during the good times and during the bad times as well. It's like a marriage. Right. It's like a marriage. But unfortunately, a lot of people are treating their trading strategy like a one night stand.

[00:38:46] Right. So they have fun with it. And then when when when when basically there comes for another dinner, they are no longer willing to basically to go for it again. You know what I mean? So basically, that's that's the problem of people. They need to treat their trading strategy like a marriage, not like a one night stand.

[00:39:08] So they need to live discipline, stay stick with their profitable trading system. Yeah. And follow it. That's that's the only thing. That's the that's the thing they need to do and how to start. Just start watching some technical analysis or read some books, beautiful books. There is many of them market wizards. I would start with market wizards. Got it. So no one knows what the future of Bitcoin is going to be. People hope people make, you know, make make predictions. We're not going to talk about those predictions.

[00:39:37] But let's say, let's say, for example, Bitcoin went to zero. Okay, tomorrow, maybe not tomorrow, maybe a year or two years, right? Today is zero, right? But somebody picks up your album in 20 years, right? What do you hope they hear when they listen to it 20 years now?

[00:40:00] The kind of mechanics of how to actually have a great life because the kind of teachings in this album are not are not just for good trading are good for life as well. Right? So it's good to be patient. It's good to be disciplined. It's this kind of short term versus long term trade off, right? It's uncomfortable to take the cold plunge in the short run. But in the long run, it's beneficial for you.

[00:40:30] It's uncomfortable to eat healthy in the long run, in the short run, but in the long run is going to be beneficial for you. So I want the people, even though there is no Bitcoin, there is no crypto to listen to the album and understand.

[00:40:44] All right, like these kind of things actually make me can make me the better myself, make me to be the best version of myself. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's about it. Yeah. It's not just about trading. It's about really about all of this stuff that will make you happy, I would say in your personal life as well.

[00:41:07] Today, Simon Mock reminded us that not every contribution to Bitcoin comes in the form of code, capital, or commentary. Sometimes it comes through creativity. We talked about discipline, about psychology, entrepreneurship, and human behavior that continues to shape these markets, regardless of technology.

[00:41:38] And so we explored, you know, so we explored why Simon chose music as the medium for those ideas. And what happens when the industry begins creating its own culture, rather than simply discussing itself.

[00:41:52] So we talked signals signals, we talked signals over noise and how to distinguish and determine what the signal is over the noise. So whether you're interested in Bitcoin, trading, entrepreneurship, the creative process itself.

[00:42:11] Our conversation was a reminder that systems, systems may evolve, but people remain at the center of every story. So I thank Simon for joining me today on the Crypto Hipster Podcast. And thank you to all who tuned in to see this episode.